One summer morning as I was going out to the beach for a jog, my eyes came upon this object. A red bundle of cloth hanging like a nest of spider eggs from twelve o'clock high, dead center, from the top of a playground 'Jungle gym' for children in my neighborhood. I had the strange sensation that somehow this cloth was put there for me. I felt like it had something in it for me to see.

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"Okay, Phillip, stop seeing Angels in the Architecture," I told myself. Because of the multiplicity of extraordinary things that had been happening to me during that period of time, I feared that I was beginning to see symbolic meaning in everything (and who knows perhaps there was). I suppressed my gut instincts to investigate. I walked right pass the Jungle gym and embarked on a jog. It was an excellent morning and I exceeded my usual jaunt, nearly doubling the distance I was accustomed to. I took a rest break then made my way back to the apartment a couple of hours later.

I was surprise to find children all about the Jungle Gym. The children were involved in full contact play and yet the bundle of cloth appeared undisturbed. Given the inquisitive nature of children, I found it odd that they should have allowed this item to remain at rest. I puzzled at this for a moment but once again I suppressed the instinctual feelings that the object was for my eyes and me only. I went upstairs and puttered around for a few more hours. When I returned to the outside around midday the children had gone and guess what was still in hanging in place?

"Enough is enough", I retrieved the bundle. Something seemed to be inside of the bundle. I went to work trying to get at the center of the bundle.

Are you familiar with the old box within a box routine? A person will open a nicely wrapped gift box only to find another wrapped but smaller box inside. A similar thing was happening to me in regard to this bale of red cloth. I would undue one knot, unfurl the material a bit; only to find another tight knot.

I finally made it through to the last knot and was disappointed to discover no sacred gem inside, no medieval medallion. There was nothing inside the bundle at all. The hardness of the bundle was caused by the series of knots. The cloth turned out to be some sort of banner. It was approximately twenty inches (50 cm) in width and about three feet (1 m) in length. The blood red background supported figure silk-screened in white. The artwork had a chilling and ominous look about it.

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Having put in a full day of activity on the beach, I retired to my apartment and settled in for the night. A few days earlier a friend has given me a book, which featured abstracts from Hinduism and other religions of the East. I had actually started on reading a chapter the day before finding the banner. I knew that the Hari-Krishna festival was due to arrive on the beach in the coming weeks and I wanted to prepare a good arsenal of debates for the devotees of that faith. I just want to rattle their cage a little.

I had started reading this chapter in the book, which told the story of Vishnu. Vishnu is triad God, one of the supreme beings in the Hindu Trinity. Vishnu would incarnate himself as different avatars to save the world when it was in a time of crisis. Once he came as a lion headed God, once as a giant tortoise, and so, and so. I had gotten as far as Krishna on the first night of reading before putting the book away.

I retrieved the book and continued my reading. I made it through to the ninth avatar when I came upon something interesting, no, something so amazing that coincidence is far too weak a word to describe it. Apparently Hinduism is not a dead religion. They also have an equivalent to a 'Second Coming ' like in Christianity. According to Hindu sacred texts, the tenth and final incarnation has yet to come. Vishnu will come as Kalki. This incarnation will be known as the horse incarnation. In this final incarnation Vishnu will come as an invisible rider on a white horse, the horse will be drawing a carriage. Unlike previous incarnations, this time Vishnu will not come on his own. He will be lead by a man.

Recently while telling the story of the found banner and the similarity with the story of Kalki, I was confronted with two questions that had never been put to me before in relation to the story. My friend and coworker R. Selai is a resident of India who is temporarily living in the United States. He tends to be very skeptical of my mystical stories and my humorous presentation of the events does nothing but fuels his skepticism.

He really knew how to ruin a good story. To make matters worse, he challenged me to find out about the company. Thank God we have the Internet or else I would have simply considered Mr. Selai too! Linear minded and conservative in view, to benefit or enjoy a good accounting of the spiritual.

A few days after having my story bubble popped by Mr. Selai, I was surfing on the net. I remembered what he suggested that I should research the company.

With the keyword 'Hermes' selected, I started my Internet journey. I was immediately distracted. The first entries dealt with Hermes as the God in Greek mythology.

Hermes was a playful and mischievous god in the Greek Mythology pantheon of deities. His primary function was that of Messenger of the Gods. He would deliver messages from Mount Olympus, the home of the gods, to earth, the home of humans. I further learned that the root word of Hermes can be conjugated to read as Message of God as well as Messenger of God.

Could the red bundle of cloth be a message from above?

I continued my research and clicked on the actual site for the Hermès Company. It appears there is an explanation why a perfume company should use such equestrian imagery for its product line. The company was originally founded as a saddler and leather goods manufacturer during the 19th century. It transformed itself into a perfume company fairly recently. Nice choice of symbols for a playful God huh!

Now I was truly amused at the connection and on a whim decided to look up Kalki on the net. After getting a short description of the events surrounding the future coming of Kalki (most of which had been expressed in the aforementioned book), I came across something I had not seen before. The end quote was that Kalki would also be known as "the perfumed one".

Another friend I told the story to asked quite defiantly why should such a prophetic gift of such magnitude be delivered into my hands, noting that I was neither Indian nor was I a potential devotee to any one of the numerous Hindu faiths. This was and still is a valid question to which I can only answer that my name Phillip translates as "Lover of Horses" in Greek,

Maybe it's that darn mischievous Hermes getting in a few more cosmic yokes....

...yes, and the Cosmos is also playing more jokes! See further coincidendes analysis about Hermès and a reprint of an article in
Time Magazine (editor).

Phillip Ghee.
He lives in the USA, is 47, works as a Pharmacy Technician and has as hobby inline skating.